You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.
Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. if you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true meaning of life.
Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death? When you start preparing for death you soon realize that you must look into your life now... and come to face the truth of your self. Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
By introducing you to yourself it enables you to discover for yourself the true meaning of life and thus enrich every moment of it. Such self-discovery can lead to greater understanding of fellow-beings and therefore to true love.
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